CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS by Rudyard kipling

About the Author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a well-known English author and poet. He was born in Bombay, British India, in 1865, but was educated in England. In 1882, Kipling returned to India, where he worked for Anglo-Indian newspapers. He also wrote many short stories and poems, which became popular in England in the 1880s. Kipling returned to England in 1889 and lived there for the next three years. In 1892, he married and the couple moved to Vermont, USA. Kipling wasn’t very happy there and returned to England in 1896, after the death of his daughter, Josephine. The Jungle Book (1894) became a children’s classic all over the world.  Kim (1901) is another of Kipling’s famous works. Others include The Second Jungle Book (1895), Captains Courageous (1897) and Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906).  Kipling received many awards and was the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He died in London in 1936, and was buried in Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey.

Plot Summary

Harvey is an arrogant young man travelling on a passenger ship in the North Atlantic Ocean. One evening, he begins to feel seasick. While the ship is rolling between two huge waves, Harvey leans over the railing to be sick. He falls into the water and faints. When he becomes conscious, he’s on the We’re Here. He learns that Manuel found him in the water and brought him to the fishing boat. Harvey tells Disko that he’s the son of a rich man and that his father will pay the captain a lot of money to take Harvey to New York, but Disko doesn’t believe him. He’s got other plans ...

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